Literary Devices


Plot - Plot is the organization of character and action in a work of narrative or drama in order to achieve particular effects

Introduction - The act or proccess of the introduction

Rising Action - A series of events that lead to the climax of the story usually conflicts or struggles with protagonist

Climax - Something working figuratively, or seemingly working its way toward
Conclusion - The close or last part

Setting - The position or direction in wich something is set

Antagonist - One who opposes and contends against another

Protagonist - Character meant to be concerned

Round Character -A round character is a major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it

Flat Character - A flat character is a character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story

Dynamic Character - A dynamic character is a character who undergoes a permanent change in outlook or character during the story

Static Character - Two dimensional

Conflict Types - Situational irony

Metaphor - Metaphor can be described as a comparison that shows how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in another important way

Personification - A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.

Simile - A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared

Allusion - An indirect reference to some piece of knowledge not actually mentioned

Oxymoron - A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side

Euphemism - Is a word or phrase used in place of a term that originally could not be spoken out loud

Foreshadowing - Is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in his story

Point of View - Third person, Second Person, First person

Omniscient - Someone who has total knowledge

Satire - A work of literature that mocks social conventions, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous

Symbol - Something that represents something else by association
resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.

Theme - A topic of discourse or discussion

Irony:
a. Dramatic- Is a situation in which the reader or audience knows more about the immediate circumstances or future events of a story than a character it self
b. Verbal- Occurs when the words of a character or narrator have an implicit meaning as well as an ostensible one
c. Situational- An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Imagery- A set of mental pictures or images